The nub of the problem is that the bank's twin aims—generating inflation and bringing down yields—are somewhat contradictory.

问题的关键在于央行的两个目标--实现通胀与压低收益率—一定程度上是矛盾的。

Just bitten them right down to the nubs.

又咬到只剩一点点了。

One evening I chopped the basil stem too low and was left with a barren nub.

有一天傍晚，我把罗勒茎剪掉太多，最后只有光秃秃的残根。

Intuition pumps are what Mr Dennett calls thought experiments that aim to get at the nub of concepts.

直觉泵是丹尼特用来称呼思想实验的一个词语。所谓思想实验就是一种意在探究概念核心内容的实验。

Small nubs were growing here and there on the healthiest of the plants, but they were not developing well.

只有几棵最健康的玉米秧上零星地长了几根小玉米棒，就这几个也长得不太好。

A nub is a " non-useful body" -someone who uses up oxygen, food and space and offers nothing in return.

nub是“没有用处的身体”--耗费氧气、食物和空间，却不带来任何回报的。

A nub is someone who is not on the team, and the opacity of jargon gives the word extra bite.

这个词指的是团队之外的，因为这个词的意思不是谁都能懂，所以这个词显得更加意味深长。

You know, they wore the Knicks to the nub in that seven game series.

你知道吗，在那列赛中，他们把尼克斯队打得体无完肤。

At its simplest, tell us the nub of your findings.

最简单的，告诉我们你的发现的要点。

I had got to something, the nub of something.

我触及到了某个核心问题。

You're going to draw a nub back.

你要画一个小突起。

Everything that will become the new limb grows from that little nub.

所有将成为新肢体的部分都是从那个小节点长出来的。

Like I use this down to the nub.

我喜欢用它直到用得不能再用了。

Trigger warning, I use the word nub.

提醒：我使用了“nub”这个词。

And then those branches have these tiny nubs called dendritic spines.

这些分支上有着被称为树突棘的微小突起。

Eventually, one side's worn down to the nub and the other isn't.

最终，一方被磨得精疲力尽，而另一方却没有。

This brings us to the nub of the problem.

这触及了问题的核心。

Looks like the rubber nub from under a computer.

像是电脑底座的橡皮垫。

That, of course, is the nub of the matter.

当然，这才是问题的关键。

It therefore seems plausible that Ms Turbeck has uncovered the nub of the mechanism by which this group has become so diverse.

因此，图贝克女士揭示了这一群体变得如此多样化的核心机制似乎是合理的。